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Monday 29 June 2009, Henry Porter's blog, guardian.co.uk Give local authorities a power and they abuse it. We have seen it with RIPA terror laws and the creation of largely useless CCTV systems: now the right to drink in public is being systematically attacked across the country by local authorities using powers to stop people having a good time in a park or a picnic with their friends. Click here to read more at guardian.co.uk
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